WordWolf

I was just about to wish you a happy 29th!

"Everyone feeds on death, even vegetarians." "Computer – this is a Class A Priority Directive: Compute, to the last digit, the value of pi." "This is the first time I've heard a malfunction threaten us." "Scotty – here, they use the lights." "Now, no one has to tell an old Aberdeen pub crawler how to applaud, captain!"

How can you tell? Well, if you don't know, it's easy. You google the name in quotes, and "imdb" in quotes. Then you look up its imdb listing. (Internet movie database.) If it's a regular movie, its name will be written normally. If it was direct-to-video, like, say, that recent Doctor Strange movie, it will have "(V)" written after it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910865/ And if it was a video-game only, the parentheses will have "(VG)" instead. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395274/ If there's still any question, look up its wikipedia entry. Even if it's only a "stub", it should include its release year and whether it was a theater release or whatever. Please note direct-to-video's excluded more out of obscurity, since distribution's limited on those. We may not have even HEARD of the movie...

I hope this one isn't TOO tough for this crowd... "I got the ways and means to New Orleans. I'm going down by the river where its warm and green. I'm gonna have a drink, and walk around, I got a lot to think about. Oh, yeah..." "They used to dance in the garden in the middle of the night. They used to dance in the garden in the middle of the night. They were naked as the day they were born, skin all bone-china white. O, you're a vampire, and I may never see the light."

I'm confident enough to go ahead and post the next one. This is more recent than most of the songs posted, so it's unusually difficult for a lot of the people here. But, I'll give it a shot. Besides, I have the guitar riff for this one stuck in my head, now. "I got the ways and means to New Orleans. I'm going down by the river where its warm and green. I'm gonna have a drink, and walk around, I got a lot to think about. Oh, yeah..."

Gee, vpw used a term with a sexual connotation for something he was doing that supposedly had nothing to do with sex. What a coincidence. It seems to me that what the corps was billed as depended heavily upon what was calculated as being the approach to interest you, with the actual content being incidental, if that. Are you more an academic? Then the corps is a place to study directly on-grounds, and learn more than is covered locally, with in-depth Greek study and classes that don't leave the grounds. Are you more a hands-on person? Then the corps is the place to learn practical application of Biblical principles, for use in everyday life. Are you more a conspiracy theorist? Then the corps is a place to learn the secrets behind the news, and what's going to happen in the US soon. Are you excited about being in twi? Then the corps is a place to learn to perform feats unattainable by the rest of the world. Are you devoted to the idea that vpw has received the greatest understanding of Scripture in 2000 years? Then the corps is a place to learn at the feet of the master. In each case, what you GOT was exactly the same- but the goal was to get you to sign up and pay your tuition more than realistically prepare you for what would be covered-which didn't approach ANY of those sales pitches (except small parts of the first 2.) Reminds me of those old commercials, supposedly of some Iron Curtain country, where the "model" comes out in "different" outfits, which are the same outfits with the announcer giving them different names ("day-vear!" "Evening-vear!")

In wayworld, disagreement never exists, and history gets rewritten to arrange this. Old story.

You committed an assault on your local moglet, and the entire thing was just dropped, of course. Man, if I had a nickel for every time I broke a chair over the head of a moglet, I could drown in them.... <_<

This is the End of the Innocence, title cut for the Don Henley album of the same name. (I liked it, but liked the previous album more.) I don't know the connection, but if I were to guess, I'd say Bruce Hornsby was somehow connected with Poco, since he contributed the melody for this song. (If you compare the melody for "Valley Road" and "End of the Innocence" in your head, you'll see the connection.) And in all fairness, it was Raf, long ago, who told me Hornsby contributed it.

I keep misremembering Keanu's dialogue as including him saying "Whoa" in the movie, even though they didn't go THAT far-including him was enough of a shock. Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing stole all his scenes, IMHO. He played a blase scientist, jaded to the horrors of what he dealt with, to the hilt. The quintessential scene he did, for me, was when he was eating dinner. I included the quote above. He's eating a very rare steak, which is bloody as he's eating, and he casually discusses Lucy's end while eating. Eventually, Winona Ryder's character runs from the table and throws up in reaction. As for the current movie, I'm hoping some new faces wander in. I'm really not that strong on most movies- rather, the ones I've seen, I tend to remember fairly well.

It's been done before, but I don't know if it was more than once.

"Everyone feeds on death, even vegetarians." "Computer – this is a Class A Priority Directive: Compute, to the last digit, the value of pi."

Wasn't all this supposed to be a BIBLE program, how to apply the Bible and apply Christian principles?

Thank you, but unless they're on CD, I still have the cassette.

Matthew 5:29-30 (NASB) "29"If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30"If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell." Here Jesus warned them-and us- of the dangers and severity of sin. Jesus warned us that-if something is an occasion to sin for us, makes it likely we will sin- we should GET RID OF IT, we should REMOVE IT FROM OUR LIVES. If drinking leads to poor judgement, which leads to sin in a person's life (like drinking and having one-night stands and anonymous sex), then the person is to STOP DRINKING and avoid sin. If going to a certain building leads to a person sinning, they are to AVOID THE BUILDING and avoid sin. What's the opposite of this? Instead of taking steps to avoid sin, that would be taking steps to make sin EASIER, to FACILITATE sin. For example, setting up a specific location to sin (like an office or motorcoach), furnishing such a location for sinning (like, say, with alcohol or drugs), and so on. Much of sin-especially the sin that hurts others- is based around steps of sin where one makes decisions one after another, each leading to the sin. If one quotes George Carlin, it becomes easier to see steps and decision points. Speaking of his Catholic upbringing, and its view of sin to him as a youth, "It was a sin to WANT to feel up Ellen, it was a sin to PLAN to feel up Ellen, it was a sin to figure out a PLACE to feel up Ellen, it was a sin to TAKE Ellen to the place to feel her up, it was a sin to TRY to feel her up, and it was a sin to feel her up. There were six sins in one feel, man!" Some will miss the point, likely, and consider this just another excuse to hate the Catholic Church. The point, however, is that each decision, and each action, led up to the sin. At any point, that sinner could have stopped before the sin was committed. Similarly, an adulterer- or an adulterer who teaches his students that having sex with him isn't wrong- has MANY decision points before the actual sin takes place- but he chooses to embrace the sin anyway. On the other hand, Jesus would tell him to discard any item, any location, any action, that leads to sin. It's not so hard at some of the smaller steps. "Sin no more." Ok, how? Start by eliminating plans to sin, and continue by making plans for alternatives, then carrying them out. Oh, and thanks for highlighting Matthew, those verses were worth discussing!

Technically, I posted SOME of them-about a page's worth. I probably left out a lot. Probably hadn't read it all yet, anyway. They probably wanted to start with the link, then didn't think to scroll down and see if we'd discussed how it died later.

I think of it more as Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing, featuring Gary Oldman as Dracula, and so on. But yes, that's this one. I figured posting my 3 favourite quotes would make it obvious. Since you narrowed it down to Dracula, I didn't have to make the quote the one about the children of the night. Your turn, George!

It worked when she posted it, but apparently, when it got traffic coming from THIS site, they deleted it. That's why I revived some of the data and posted it directly further down the page. That's what Belle thanked me for posting.

Personally, I much preferred "Diane and the Ephesians" to the "Spiritual Shades" album. At ROA '88, I bought every nonofficial thing I could get my hands on. Not that I was avoiding the official things, but I could buy those ANYTIME. Turns out I underestimated how hard it would be for me to get them the next year-which was after lcm drew the line in the sand, and virtually all the sellers took off.

"Everyone feeds on death, even vegetarians."

"I want you to bring me before nightfall a set of postmortem knives." "An autopsy? On Lucy?" "No, no. Not exactly. I just want to cut off her head and take out her heart." "Mr. Morris, your bullets will not harm him. He must be beheaded. I suggest that you use your big Bowie knife." "Well, I wasn't plan on getting that close, Doc." "How did Lucy die? Was she in great pain?" "*continues eating* Yes, she was in great pain! Then we cut off her head, and drove a stake through her heart, and burned it, and then she found peace."

Bela Lugosi was not in this movie.

Ok, let the others had a chance to answer it. This is the series premiere for Star Trek: Deep Space 9, "Emissary." The episode where Picard atrociously mispronounced "Bajor".

Ok, no one else has said it, so I'm going to. Please note this isn't a personal judgement on you as a person. If you went out for a walk and found a nest in use, why not return the nest to where you found it and let them keep your nest? The wasps built it on their own, they weren't on your property, and they were minding their own business. I know you're a human and all that, but would it be fair if some superintelligent alien race (supposing one exists) grabbed your house with you in it, and planned on killing you off to make a museum-piece of your house?

Actually, disagreeing with them produces reactions, and always has. Never produces open dialogue-it produces attempts to suppress instead. Write a paper saying "adultery is wrong"? The powers-that-be say "anyone who reads it will get possessed!" Point out they're kicking out Mrs W from the home she lived in, after twi got her farm and her lifelong devotion? NOW they want to make an official response- but before they wanted to do it secretly... http://www.snopes.com/horrors/cannibal/tapping.asp This story, which probably isn't true, is where the British get the saying "tapping the Admiral".